Improve capacity to promote public participation in legislative process (ID0129)

What is the public problem that the commitment will address? The public still finds difficulty in obtaining complete and online legislation information directly from the source at DPR RI. The results of the 2020-2024 OPI Roadmap Survey conducted from July to August 2020 held by Secretariat General of DPR RI, IPC and WFD found that the majority of respondents acquire information on parliament and legislation through secondary sources such as online news media and social media. This resulted in the circulation of misinformation about parliament, including information on legislation in the public. It is a major obligation for the DPR RI based on Law Number 14 of 2008 on Public Information Openness (KIP) to provide all public information and to become the single source of truth for legislative information. In The National Action Plan for Open Parliament Indonesia (OPI) 2018-2020, the Indonesian Parliament has established a Legislation Information System (SILEG) (Link http://www.dpr.go.id/uu/prolegnas-long-list) which serves to present legislative information that is up to date and easily accessible to all people. SILEG uses railway legislation design which is integrated with the main website of DPR RI (Link http://www.dpr.go.id/) intended so that the public can easily follow the passage of legislation. However, the SILEG platform, which is integrated on the main DPR RI website, is still not equipped with various information and data crucial for the public. The information includes among others detailed explanation of the stages of the draft law 76 process and standardisation of legislative documents uploaded in the system. In addition, even though SILEG already has a service that provides access to participation for people who want to provide input and aspirations in the legislation process via email to the Legislation Body through email set_baleg@dpr.go.id. However, this system has not been running optimally in various ways. First is the lack of response and follow-up to the public. Second is dissemination to the community is still lacking, so that people are still unfamiliar with the system. This resulted in disconnection and miscommunication between the parliament and the public in the legislative process. What is the commitment? Increasing the capacity of the Legislative Information System (SILEG) in presenting legislative information that is more complete and simpler for the public to understand. Improvements have also been made to the speed, accuracy and up-to-dateness of the presentation of legislative information, as well as improving the quality of the more responsive public participation channels on SILEG. Milestone: 1. Determination of standard data formats and types of legislative information documents (minutes, legislation documents). 2. Improvement of quality of human resources related in legislative information through training and workshops. 3. Formulation of the SILEG Implementation Guidelines which regulate: a. Procedure for treatise publication b. Document type and format c. Accuracy of data upload time d. Monitoring and evaluation of SILEG management 4. Development of a public participation channel system in the SILEG application 77 How will the commitment contribute to solve the public problem? This commitment will provide the public with a more complete, fast and accurate legislation information platform. This commitment will also expand access to public participation in the legislative process. Why is this commitment relevant to OGP values? This commitment improves access to information for the public by providing more standardised information, organised publication procedures and better-quality human resources. So that this contributes to the value of transparency. This commitment will also open up opportunities for the public to channel their aspirations and inputs to the ongoing legislation and this will contribute to the value of public participation. Conformity with the Parliament Work Plan 1. DPR RI Strategic Plan for 2020-2024 2. This formation is in line with DPR RI’s plan to initiate a “Modern Parliament,” namely a parliament that is representative, transparent and uses information technology. Additional Information Link SILEG http://www.dpr.go.id/uu/prolegnas-long-list Link Partisipasi Publik Pada SILEG set_baleg@dpr.go.id Milestone Activity with a Verifiable Deliverable Start Date: End Date: Availability of standard data formats and legislation information documents (minutes, legislation documents) January 2021 December 2022 Workshop series and training to improve quality of human resources in legislation information through training and workshops. January 2021 December 2022 Availability of SILEG Implementation Guidelines which regulate: • Procedure for treatise publication January 2021 December 2022 78 • Document type and format • Accuracy of data upload time • Monitoring and evaluation of SILEG management The availability of a public participation channel in the SILEG application January 2021 December 2022

Action Plan Review

Commitment 19: Improving the Legislative Information System (SILEG)

Results Report

Commitment 19. Improving the Legislative Information System (Sileg)

● Verifiable: Yes

● Does it have an open government lens? Yes

● This commitment has been clustered as: Open Parliament (Commitments 19–24)

● Potential for results: Modest

● Completion: Substantial

● Did it open government? Marginal

Under this commitment, the Secretariat General of parliament and its civil society partner, the Indonesian Parliamentary Center, continued the previous action plan’s internally focused effort to further develop the online Legislative Information System (Sileg) and introduce a new public participation channel on the platform. ^[162] For internal development efforts, implementers ran trainings and workshops to build staff capacity on legislative information and formulated the system’s implementation guidelines. ^[163] The milestone to introduce a parliamentary data and information format standard was not completed. This meant parliamentary committees’ minutes of meetings remained unstandardized. Parliamentarians were not invested in adopting the One Data format, whereas approval from parliamentary leadership is necessary in order to do standardize data and information formats across the parliamentary work units. ^[164]

In terms of impact, Sileg is meant to allow the public to track the progression of ongoing bills and, through the commitment’s new channel, participate in the legislative process. For example, by submitting input and requesting follow-up actions on hearing outcomes. ^[165] However, the Indonesian Parliamentary Center and the Westminster Foundation for Democracy found that legislative information uploaded to Sileg is still not consistently up to date—for instance, on prominent legislations, such as the New & Renewable Energy Bill (RUU EBET) and the Jobs Creation Omnibus Bill (RUU CK). ^[166] Without current versions of bills, public monitoring cannot effectively take place. Also, Sileg only publishes very brief meeting minutes, as the parliament secretariat require parliamentarians’ approval to publish the full minutes. ^[167]

Outside of the commitment’s milestones to address gaps in Sileg, the Indonesian Parliamentary Center launched a “mirror” portal (openparliament.id) in 2019 aimed at monitoring transparency and participation in parliament's legislative process. The portal publishes brief reports, minutes of meetings, draft bills, academic papers, schedules, and a variety of other materials owned and created by the parliament. ^[168] The Center used this portal to track how well the Indonesian parliament kept to this commitment.